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CFC # 693
HUMAN FREEDOM
• But it is so easy to confuse human
freedom with simply “doing what I
want.”
• Authentic freedom is NOT “the right
to say and do anything,” but to “do
the good”.
CFC # 695
“FREEDOM FROM”
• But this “freedom from” all restraints
can often result in following selfish
inclinations or blind prejudices rather
than seeking what is truly good.
CFC # 696
“FREEDOM FROM”
• Interior obstacles – ignorance,
disordered passions, fears,
personality defects, bad habits,
prejudices or psychological
disturbances.
• Exterior forces – violent force or
even the threat of violence.
CFC # 696
“FREEDOM FROM”
• These impediments are commonly
traced to three sources: biological –
inherited handicaps and defects as
well as external substances like
drugs; psychological – interior
compulsions, including those from
the unconscious;
CFC # 696, cf. CCC 1740
“FREEDOM FROM”
• Social pressures – economic,
political, and cultural obstacles which
impede the right to freedom.
• But the greatest single obstacle to
authentic freedom is SIN.
CFC # 697
“FREEDOM FOR”
• In the first level, we have the
freedom to choose to act in this or
that way, to do good or evil.
• But by consistently choosing to do
the good, we gradually become free
loving persons, the second level.
CFC # 697
FREEDOM OF THE
CHILDREN OF GOD
• The goal of this process and task of
personal freedom is “to be set free
from slavery to corruption and
share in the glorious freedom of the
children of God.”
• Freedom “to attain the good” simply
means to “act as Jesus did.”
CFC # 698, cf. Rom 8:21; CCC 1742
FREEDOM OF THE
CHILDREN OF GOD
• It is the power of Christ’s Spirit
within us that liberates us from sin,
the law and death, for a life of loving
service wherein we find our true
selves by imitating Christ Jesus, our
Lord.